I was thinking of also watching teen titans and revisiting avatar and korra again since I haven’t seen them in years. Anything else cartoon knowers of hb recommend? Batman TAS, X-Men 97?
I think Batman TAS was animated by a team at Sunrise (who later did The Big O), so western cartoons is kinda subjective lol.
Being a pedant aside lol, Gennedy Tartakovsky’s worked on a lot of cool stuff: Samurai Jack and his (now non-canon) Star Wars: the Clone Wars are pretty fun if you’re looking for more action oriented shows.
Always wanted to revisit the clone wars.
If you like Star Wars in general, I’d also recommend the Dave Filoni led animated shows: The Clone Wars and Rebels. All your examples were old cell animated stuff, so I didn’t mention them lol.
If you pick up those shows and like podcasts, I can’t recommend A More Civilized Age enough!
Primal is a gorelicious masterpiece.
The new She-Ra might be something you’d like and we’re showing it again on blorp in a bit if you’re interested. It’s been pretty fantastic so far.
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owl house is cool if you’re gay enough
came here to suggest it.
Also, Steven Universe, though I’m assuming if you are on Hex Bear you’ll have opinons about the ending. I certainly did.
The Maxx is really, really good. It’s about a homeless man and a social worker who inhabit both the real world where she protects him via social welfare and he protects her in a parallel dimension as like a caveman in the wild.
A lot of the MTV Liquid Television cartoons were cool as fuck.
Scavengers Reign fucks crazy hard
All of the DC cartoons of the 90’s to 00’s are pretty dang good
Batman: TAS, Superman: TAS, Batman Beyond, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited all excellent
Plus JLU has my favorite version of The Question in it, played by Jeffrey Combs as a paranoid conspiracy theorist who is nonetheless right about (most) everything
Also, if you liked Teen Titans, Young Justice is also very good and it’s a goddamn shame they keep getting jerked around
Static Shock was peak too
Oh yeah, i always forget about Static Shock
Also also, I just recommended Lower Decks (and Prodigy) as good Star Trek in another thread yesterday, but I will also recommend them as good animated shows here.
BTAS and X-Men both the 90s and the continuation are really good. I also stan 90s spider-man, and if you’re a real sicko there’s a couple crossover episodes and they share continuity with the (not as good) 90s iron man and craptastic four.
mtv-2 spider-man is worth watching because it’s so fucking weird that it exists
all the stuff continuing from BTAS is pretty good
Static shock
simpsons season 1-8 are good and it drops from there pretty quick. some good individual episodes after that and some good scenes or jokes but overall it declines.
Futurama is great but pick one of the finales and stop.
Reboot and Transformers: Beast wars are really cool, especially for how early they are.
Captain Planet
of course.maybe look up content warnings for them but Heavy Metal is fucken rad other than all the problematic shit and Heavy Metal 2000 is alright if you want more. Love Death Robots does some neat stuff and is kindof a spiritual successor to heavy metal in some ways but it loses a lot by not having the soundtrack.
Freakazoid
Also, the Harley Quinn cartoon show is good and gay
heads up: most of these come with big time content warnings.
I’m a big fan of the adult swim rennaisance, space ghost coast to coast (all seasons), aqua teen hunger force (seasons 1-6), sealab 2021 (season 1 only), moral orel (all), venture bros (all), harvey birdman attorney at law (all), the boondocks (all), metalocalypse (seasons 1-3), Squidbillies (seasons 1-4), home movies (all), Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (all), The Brak Show (all), Tom Goes to The Mayor (all), Xavier: Renegade Angel (all)
I’m sure I’m blanking on a bunch because the AS circle generated a lot of great shows in the 90s-00s. Closest modern show to the vibe of these (and probably my favorite western cartoon at the moment) is Smiling Friends (all).
Bojack Horseman, Futurama, and King of the Hill are my favorite cartoon style shows but the later two are episodic comedies while the former is a dark drama/comedy with a continual story. Avatar holds up really well and I second the other posters rec of Samurai Jack.
Is your focus strictly on family-friendly?
Nope!
Then my number 1 recommendation if you haven’t already watched it is Venture Bros
Scavengers Reign, Pantheon, Gargoyles, Over the Garden Wall, Spawn
LOVED Gargoyles as a kid, I will revisit. Spawn sounds interesting, that was on hbo right?
Yep, the HBO Spawn. Unfortunately it was canceled without a proper ending, but still worth seeing.
it’s kinda rough with the villain it opens with
It’s rough in a lot of ways. I might be making too much of it; I was in a very broody place when I watched it and it happened to be a very good fit for my mood.
Primal is quite good if you can enjoy very minimal dialogue.
Sym-bionic Titan is also pretty fun for a more traditional cartoon experience, but it was canceled too soon. Still worth a watch though.
Batman: Caped Crusader and My Adventures with Superman are both good
